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Do women always go for a man with money?

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    #62
    seenitall
    Registered Users Posts: 3,718 ✭✭✭seenitall


    john47832 wrote: »
    All of these are requirements for survival - and whether women know it or not they are attracted to these traits (including money) because of survival instincts... It may seem shallow that women are after money but its in their instincts to be like that, actually they cant help it.

    BS. I married a man without a penny to his name, and so did a good few friends of mine. In fact, now that I think of it, in three of these cases, it is the wives who earn more than the husbands - and guess what else? - two of these marriages are the happiest I've ever seen.

    Your theory doesn't seem to be standing up so well from what I can see around me.


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    #63
    unseenfootage
    Registered Users Posts: 976 ✭✭✭unseenfootage


    Stealth Recce wrote: »
    Ah, having money is just part of the bigger picture. I doubt many women purely go for guys on the back of a bank balance. Im talking regular folk here not the uber rich and celebs who have trophy wives or groupie skanks hanging out of them.

    In all honesty, how could you like someone who only likes you for your bank card.

    Love grows.

    If I was a millionaire and if a beautiful woman wanted to marry me I would not turn her down as long as she was a good mother and fantastic with the housework.


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    #64
    Micky Dolenz
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    We should pause to think of those who are unattractive and broke :(

    Should this thread be locked?


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    #65
    Vito Corleone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭Vito Corleone


    I guess all those rich ugly guys with very attractive partners must have good personalities.

    :pac:


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    #66
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    unseenfootage wrote: »
    Love grows.

    If I was a millionaire and if a beautiful woman wanted to marry me I would not turn her down as long as she was a good mother and fantastic with the housework.

    Im talking about us "normal folk".


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    #67
    Larianne
    Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    We should pause to think of those who are unattractive and broke :(

    Should this thread be locked?

    Only if it upsets you greatly.


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    #68
    mark renton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭mark renton


    Larianne wrote: »
    People have to make money to survive, to live. But not all people are obsessed with money.

    No not obsessed, but people are programmed to survive, and money plays a big part in that - for a woman to say money is not important when selecting a partner is just not true


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    #69
    areyawell
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭areyawell


    unseenfootage wrote: »
    Love grows.

    If I was a millionaire and if a beautiful woman wanted to marry me I would not turn her down as long as she was a good mother and fantastic with the housework.

    And if she signs a pre-nupt even better! When ya get tired of her she can piss off


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    #70
    Miss Lockhart
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    john47832 wrote: »
    No not obsessed, but people are programmed to survive, and money plays a big part in that - for a woman to say money is not important when selecting a partner is just not true

    And for those of us who are well able to support ourselves and our families without relying on man to "survive"?


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    #71
    mark renton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭mark renton


    seenitall wrote: »
    BS. I married a man without a penny to his name, and so did a good few friends of mine. In fact, now that I think of it, in three of these cases, it is the wives who earn more than the husbands - and guess what else? - two of these marriages are the happiest I've ever seen.

    Your theory doesn't seem to be standing up so well from what I can see around me.

    Ahh cmon, you can hardly dis my theory based on 3 cases, maybe you lot have been very very fortunate in life?


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    #72
    amacca
    Registered Users Posts: 6,843 ✭✭✭amacca


    unseenfootage wrote: »
    Men are a lot more shallow.

    They love curves.

    They probably interpret it as a sign of fertility.


    I'm a man....I am currently crazy about a girl I met about a year ago.

    I initially didn't particularly like her despite her curviness and good looks (to me at least)

    then after I got to know her a bit better I started to like her a lot as I now think she's intelligent and a really decent person with ambition.....

    and she has a fantastic laugh....best I've ever heard, no lie. Now despite the fact she's not interested I still think highly of her and don't particularly need to reduce down why she doesn't want to go out with me to the fact she is attracted to more power or money or something no more than I like her simply because shes curvy or something


    sure some people are probably shallow but women and men are attracted to each other for lots more reasons than that list or curviness...or at least its more complicated than that for me


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    #73
    areyawell
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    Miss Lockhart wrote: »
    And for those of us who are well able to support ourselves and our families without relying on man to "survive"?

    I wouldn't mind marrying a rich one so I could sit on my hole all day!


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    #74
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    john47832 wrote: »
    No not obsessed, but people are programmed to survive, and money plays a big part in that - for a woman to say money is not important when selecting a partner is just not true

    That statement is simple not true. How do you explain the countess women that are coupled with guys that are unemployed, surviving, on minium or average wage? Relationships that they can easily walk away from?


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    #75
    Truncheon Rouge
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 388 ✭✭Truncheon Rouge


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MttzMTtiqAU


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    #76
    mark renton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭mark renton


    Miss Lockhart wrote: »
    And for those of us who are well able to support ourselves and our families without relying on man to "survive"?

    Unmarried mothers?


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    #77
    Miss Lockhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Miss Lockhart


    john47832 wrote: »
    Unmarried mothers?

    So the only way women can support their families without relying on a man is by being an unmarried mother?


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    #78
    Pottler
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    Stealth Recce wrote: »
    That statement is simple not true. How do you explain the countess women that are coupled with guys that are unemployed, surviving, on minium or average wage? Relationships that they can easily walk away from?
    If they're a countess, maybe the guy is the one going for the money. If that's a typo, then the women are dumb. Why women like broke lads is a mystery, it adds a layer of grief that is beyond my comprehension. If you are attractive(as a woman) then marry a lad with some money, life is just easier. Fact. Any good looknig woman I know who married a broke lad who remained broke is unhappy, it usually ends in rows, usually about money.


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    #79
    mark renton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭mark renton


    Stealth Recce wrote: »
    That statement is simple not true. How do you explain the countess women that are coupled with guys that are unemployed, surviving, on minium or average wage? Relationships that they can easily walk away from?

    There are always exceptions to the rule, these are what we would class as the "needy" - in these cases it seems no requirements for survival, they seem to take what ever comes along, quite baffling really...


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    #80
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    Pottler wrote: »
    If they're a countess, maybe the guy is the one going for the money. If that's a typo, then the women are dumb. Why women like broke lads is a mystery, it adds a layer of grief that is beyond my comprehension. If you are attractive(as a woman) then marry a lad with some money, life is just easier. Fact. Any good looknig woman I know who married a broke lad who remained broke is unhappy, it usually ends in rows, usually about money.


    Yep typo. In my experience women dont always go for the guy with money.


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    #81
    beks101
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    Yes, always.

    That's why no broke man ever got laid, ever.


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    #82
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    john47832 wrote: »
    There are always exceptions to the rule, these are what we would class as the "needy" - in these cases it seems no requirements for survival, they seem to take what ever comes along, quite baffling really...

    Ok so whats the deal with you then? You are either loaded with a girl or broke and single?

    Have you ever had a relationship with a stable minded, non needy girl while you had an average wage?

    What is your opinion based on....because i am clearly wrong.


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    #83
    seenitall
    Registered Users Posts: 3,718 ✭✭✭seenitall


    john47832 wrote: »
    Ahh cmon, you can hardly dis my theory based on 3 cases, maybe you lot have been very very fortunate in life?

    Believe what you will. Your theory is as unsubstantiated IRL as on this thread.

    If 'fortunate' is another term for not concerned about the weight of a man's wallet, then yes, we have been.


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    #84
    Pottler
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    Stealth Recce wrote: »
    Ok so whats the deal with you then? You are either loaded with a girl or broke and single?

    Have you ever had a relationship with a stable minded, non needy girl while you had an average wage?

    What is your opinion based on....because i am clearly wrong.
    I said broke, not on an average wage. I'm talking total broke as5 wasters here, there's loads of them and yes, they do get laid, but long term, they're a pain in the hole and the novelty wears off. Charm and a sense of danger don't often pay the bills, and no mun, no fun, long term, usually. A lot of women only cop that when it's too late though. I know loads of pretty women stuck with broke as5 fellas who work every hour to pay the bills, and i don't reckon they're smart. But that's just my take on it.


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    #85
    naughtysmurf
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    3rdDegree wrote: »
    What about someone who makes you laugh?

    That's where the small penis comes in :pac:


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    #86
    ulyssescohen
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    but not in that order... and not in equal importance
    LyndaMcL wrote: »
    Why do you keep making these threads? Seriously? Has someone dumped you for being fat and broke?


    Also, for me personally, money means little. Personality, ambition, determination and looks are more important.


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    #87
    mark renton
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    Miss Lockhart wrote: »
    So the only way women can support their families without relying on a man is by being an unmarried mother?

    No, in some cases there appears to be the "independant woman"

    I personally have never met any of these, however I do know they exist as Beyonce sings about them...


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    #88
    amacca
    Registered Users Posts: 6,843 ✭✭✭amacca


    Stealth Recce wrote: »
    Yep typo. In my experience women dont always go for the guy with money.

    Mine too...I have some money... a good job (+a part time business of my own which isn't in debt) and I wouldn't think I'm below average in the looks department and believe me there aint no queue

    in my experience while all the above things help......women are usually initially attracted to someone who is happy and self confident and the rest is a bonus which may become more of a consideration (but not the only consideration) as things progress

    In my experience also its ironic that sometimes the people (men and women) who have a lot going for them are the least confident and successful when it comes to relationships...........guess you don't get everything in this life


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    #89
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    Pottler wrote: »
    I said broke, not on an average wage. I'm talking total broke as5 wasters here, there's loads of them and yes, they do get laid, but long term, they're a pain in the hole and the novelty wears off. Charm and a sense of danger don't often pay the bills, and no mun, no fun, long term, usually.

    yeah i was talking to the john that time, not you pottler.

    In my experience, women dont always go for guys with money. I wont argue whether that is right, wrong or sustainable. In response to the thread title....in my experience, no, its not always the case.


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    #90
    leggo
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    I know rich lads who couldn't get their hole in a brothel. They're scabby.


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    #91
    unseenfootage
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    amacca wrote: »
    I'm a man....I am currently crazy about a girl I met about a year ago.

    I initially didn't particularly like her despite her curviness and good looks (to me at least)

    then after I got to know her a bit better I started to like her a lot as I now think she's intelligent and a really decent person with ambition.....

    and she has a fantastic laugh....best I've ever heard, no lie. Now despite the fact she's not interested I still think highly of her and don't particularly need to reduce down why she doesn't want to go out with me to the fact she is attracted to more power or money or something no more than I like her simply because shes curvy or something


    sure some people are probably shallow but women and men are attracted to each other for lots more reasons than that list or curviness...or at least its more complicated than that for me

    I was mostly referring to attraction and as I said love grows. You actually reinforced my point in that you yourself were not initially attracted to her.

    Of course as time goes on a man might develop feelings for a girl but by then it is usually too late because then she considers you to be a friend, nothing more.

    A wicked laugh is not a redeeming feature in a person. It is just "nice to have."

    Trust me. Its all about the curves.


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